Hidden inside tides sit deist, diets, dites and 4 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deist, diets, dites and 3 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from tides at 6 points. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 7 five-letter words hiding in tides: six come from rearranging its letters, and tides itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets and edits. For points, the strongest plays are deist, diets, dites, edits, sited, stied, and tides — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tides produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet, edit, side, site, tied, and ties. For points, the strongest plays are desi, dies, diet, dite, dits, edit, ides, side, teds, tide, and tied — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tides turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, its, set, sit, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are die, dis, dit, eds, ids, and ted — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
36 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in tides plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tides and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
tides is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
Both totals match, because every tile in tides carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record six senses for tides. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
tides is one of seven five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tides unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deist, diets, dites, edits, sited, stied, and tides, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tides earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in tides produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 7 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.